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From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: Memnon Anon <gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ThoughtBack
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:11:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+M2ft_MM6V5EoXhgv2KNDY2atbNWurddBFQ2WOdkrbPAo6=DA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r55rlniv.fsf@mean.albasani.net>

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 8:00 AM, Memnon Anon
<gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com> writes:
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:11 AM, Bastien <bzg@altern.org> wrote:
> [...]
> >> Or did I miss something?
> >
> > Don't think so. Googling produces little, either.
> [...]
> > So... looks like notes + some other feature set that's unexplained?
>
> I found some stuff, e.g.:
> http://vimeo.com/16594128 [which I did not check]
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k4CXVFcgDg [which I just watched]
> http://www.facebook.com/thoughtback
>
>
> But I wholeheartedly do *not* recommend it:
>

I agree and think that vimeo 1min video makes it look fairly stupid,
at least to me.

>
> ,----[ https://thoughtback.com/ ]
> | Put Something In
> |
> | Enter something in that you find important. Do it through your iPhone, Mac, or Browser.
> |
> | Get Something Back
> |
> ! We store it and then randomly send you back something from the past. Keeping your brain flowing.
> | ^^^^^^^^^^^
> `----
>
> Who would want to keep his data, especially when it is easily and
> quickly captured (to use org terminology) - i.e. probably some very
> personal stuff - to be saved "in the cloud"?
>
> I did no serious investigation on this, please correct me if I am
> wrong, I don't want to spread FUD about a new project!
>

Well, my take is about what one might want to get back. Regardless of
what it is, I think there are better ways.
- if it's learning material... use something proven to work like
spaced repetition methods/software (anki, mnemosyne, etc.)
- if it's GTD stuff, isn't that what calendaring (deadlines,
scheduling) is for? I wouldn't want important stuff coming back
*randomly*!
- I *could* see the point with inspirational messages or something,
but think that spaced repetition could do that just as well

I guess I'm just not sold on what, exactly, makes it useful except for
being a bit new/different and perhaps allowing interaction via the
web/mobile devices.


John


>
> Memnon
>
>
>
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-15 18:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-13 15:03 ThoughtBack brian powell
2011-07-13 16:11 ` ThoughtBack Bastien
2011-07-13 18:49   ` ThoughtBack John Hendy
2011-07-15 13:00     ` ThoughtBack Memnon Anon
2011-07-15 16:50       ` ThoughtBack brian powell
2011-07-15 18:30         ` ThoughtBack Memnon Anon
2011-07-16 11:28         ` ThoughtBack Bastien
2011-07-15 18:11       ` John Hendy [this message]

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